Author Question: Nadine, an average-weight adult, gained a small amount of weight between the ages of 25 and 50. ... (Read 171 times)

penguins · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Nadine, an average-weight adult, gained a small amount of weight between the ages of 25 and 50. Nadine should know that __________.

A) slight weight gain in adulthood is probably due to underlying health issues
B) this is a normal part of aging, resulting from a drop in basal metabolic rate
C) weight gain in adulthood is not associated with the same health problems as pediatric weight gain
D) obesity is a personal choice and she should decide if she wants to suffer the social discrimination

Question 2

The average number of calories and amount of sugar and fat consumed by Americans __________.

A) sharply increased after 1970
B) is lower today than it was in 1980
C) has slowly decreased since the turn of the twenty-first century
D) fell steadily in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries